PHP form help! making mandatory feilds!

[shush]

Hi I have a simple form that when submitted I get sent a email with the results, however I want the 'Name' and 'Email' fields to be mandatory for the user to fill in, without which they cannot submit the form, if they try a message comes up saying they need to complete the mandatory fields.

Can someone please help or show me how I can achieve this. Thanx

this is my PHP script

<?php

$result = "Garner International: Website Enquiry Form\r\n\r\n";
$result .= "Name: " . $POST['q1'] . "\r\n";
$result .= "Professional Title: " . $POST['q2'] . "\r\n";
$result .= "Company Name: " . $POST['q3'] . "\r\n";
$result .= "Email Address" . $POST['q4'] . "\r\n";
$result .= "Comments: " . $_POST['q5'] . "\r\n";

if ($POST['q4']) {
$headers = "From: $POST[q1] <$_POST[q4]>\r\n\r\n";
} else {
$headers = "From: No Name given <[e-mail]>\r\n\r\n";
}

$sendit = mail("[e-mail]", "Garner International: Website Enquiry Form", $result, $headers) or die("Something went wrong");

echo "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0; url=thank.html'>";
die;

?>

[etully]

Add this to the top of your script:

if (!$POST['q1'] or !$POST['q4']) { print "You must fill in the name and email fields. Press your back button and try again"; exit; }

[shush]

cheers thanx for that

[shush]

Hi that works fine, however is there a way the message saying you need to enter name and email to submit form, can appear as a pop up promt rather than going to another window?

thanx

[ClarkF1]

You can use javascript to do this

[shush]

Hi Im fairly new to this and a bit of a novice, how can I go about doing that with javascript?

thanx

[Weedpacket]

Try asking that in the client-side forum (after first researching it for yourself, of course).

[sys4dm1n]

Google seems to know! 🙂